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Yeah that was my thought too. For a second I was tempted with omnilingual, but then I realised that with natural skills I just learn whatever language I wanted with hardly any effort. Plus like, everything else.
My thoughts as well. Telekinesis seems cool but 3 & 4 are a perfect combo to a great life.
3 & 4 Gang! But seriously these two seems to heavily outweigh the others in combination. While not immediately OP the long term potential is pretty insane.
3 and 4. Perfect health is a no brainer and lets you enjoy life for way longer. And the natural talent one would let you easily learn the skills to come close to perfect memory and to know every language, giving you the benefits of 1 and 2 as well.
#4 is enough. Taking #3 is an extra treat.
Wait so 5. gives me effectively infinite money?
I know right? You show up and be like “One mansion, please” and the realtor says something like “sure, our cheapest one is $2M”.
So you reach into your pocket and out comes the exact change of $2m! Bust is it
Let’s do some fun math!
If we assume you always have a dollar in your pocket and that it takes around 3 seconds to grab them from your pocket.
For one year (8766 hours or 31,557,600 seconds) you will have 10,519,200 dollars. Assuming you don’t stop while eating for example and also you don’t sleep.
Elon Musk’s net worth is around 250 billion dollars (250,000,000,000). You will need 23,766 years of non-stop pulling bills to reach him.
Thats not how it was said. It said you had the exact change anytime. So If you buy something for 4 mill you get 4mill. If you buy sum for 1.59 you get that
I’d need a lawyer.
Does perfect health last forever? No brainer then. Definitely don’t take the time pauses when you sleep /are unconscious without perfect health though, because then no one could perform surgery on you that requires general anesthesia, which could cause problems.
And arguably, being sleep deprived is not being in perfect health, so if you take perfect health you might not ever need to sleep again anyway, depending on the fine print.
And how precise is the telekinesis? Does it work on things like liquids and gasses? Could you use it to separate liquids and gasses according to type, for instance? If so it’d be more than just fun, it could be quite valuable for sciencey stuff, and you could probably make bank separating out things that are quite hard to isolate. And even if not, you might have a good career in hazardous material handling, and or manipulation of things through clean room windows.
The infinite money trick is also incredibly tempting. Does it work on things like houses and boats? Is it legal? Would you have sufficient proof of its legitimacy that if you, say, pulled a couple hundred grand out of your pocket to buy a house that the sellers would trust that it’s real and above board even if it were?
And so on. Temptation is health and telekinesis, but the various details might cause money to win out over telekinesis.
Maybe natural talent health, but I’d have to plan out what talents to acquire first, as well as information on degree. If with slight work you could become the optimal physicist etc, to the point where you could sit down and just write a perfect theory of everything that matched all our observations on paper, then that would of course be awesome. But if it doesn’t come with essentially super skills - well, I’m pretty ok with what I can do/how well I can learn now, and telekinesis sounds fun.
This is very well thought out.
if you, say, pulled a couple hundred grand out of your pocket to buy a house that the sellers would trust that it’s real and above board even if it were?
Well it says exact “change” so I think yes if you dumped a few hundred thousand $1 coins out of your pocket when it’s time to pay they’ll think it’s sus lol
I suppose though if they refuse it you’ve already generated it and can scoop it up into a wheel barrow and see if a bank will take it. They may not care about the coins too much but they’ll definitely be reporting a guy bringing in a few hundred thousand dollars in coins every now and again to the IRS.
And how precise is the telekinesis?
Also what range. Could you remotely rear naked choke anyone in the world, or just apply a leg press of a couple hundred pounds to their brain stem or some shit? Punch world leaders in the nuts at will? Crash planes by fucking with flight controls? Deorbit satellites? Divert asteroids into earth’s path?
Also, could you double jump or straight fly with it?
Manipulate roulette balls for quick money or meddle in sporting events you bet on (just telekinetically stuffing basketball shots and putt attempts and shit would be hilarious). Seems like telekinesis would be amazing.
Perfect health seems kinda suss. That pill looking like a cigarette
3 and 4. Easy.
First off, anyone who doesn’t say 2 is wasting this gift. Perfect memory and recall makes most of these other things easy.
Secondly, I’d choose Telekinesis just to fuck with people and win bar bets. Perfect memory would make it easy to make money, which would make perfect health much more attainable.
2 is a medical condition, there is people that remembers everything they did in their life.
You can ask them what they did in September 25th 2006 and they will tell you exactly what they ate for breakfast, what was the weather like, what they did, what day of the week it was …
From what I remember it was more a curse then a blessing. One because it’s really hard for them to categorize information and then they ever vividly everything including the bad stuff.
I’ll add an anecdote from a guy I know.
For one thing, he said the way his worked was that he’d take a mental picture and be able to recall that thing perfectly. So, you could flash (a couple of seconds) him a random page from War and Peace, and he could read it out to you.
However: he didn’t automatically know everything on the page. If he wanted to know what out said, he’d still have to take the time to read the page (in his memory).
And there was a downside: if he learned something incorrectly, he couldn’t unlearn it. It made things really difficult for him when his friends started getting married and changing their last names… or when people changed their phone numbers, or email addresses. In the latter cases, people he’d known for years who’d had 7 or 8 phone numbers, when he wanted to call them he’d have to mentally work through each number until he got to the last one before he could dial.
He never gave me a strong opinion about whether he was glad to have perfect recall, but he seemed to complain about it more than being grateful for it.
I wouldn’t say that I have “perfect recall” or even an “identical memory”, but I have an uncannily sharp memory.
I forget a lot, like most people, but what I remember is burnt into my mind. A lot of it are things I don’t want to remember. But, oh boy, can I tell you facts about giraffes!
Considering 1 is a worse version of 2, which is a worse version of 3, I’d have to choose 3 and 4
i would say 4 and 7. 6 seems useful at first but what if you need surgery?
perfect health and natural talent. because right now I’m the opposite of both.
Two and 4, or 4 and 7. Preferably the telekinesis one though cuz that’d be sick
3 & 4 for sure. Idgaf about most of the rest of em
Assuming 5 means that I would always have money in my pocket. I would combine 1 and 5 and just be a drifter around the world
1 and 4, easy
